REV. DR. DAVID SMITH,

The transcript of a long, unblemish'd life

Replete with happiness and holiness,

Is a fair page to look upon with love

In this world's volume oft defaced by sin,

And marr'd with misery. And he, who laid

His earthly vestments down this day, doth leave

Such tablet for the heart.

‘ Twas good to see

That what he preach'd to others, he portray'd

Before them in example, that the eye

Adding its stronger comment to the ear,

Might lend new impulse to the flock he led

Toward the Great Shepherd's fold.

Along his path

Sorrows he met, but such as wrought him gain,

And joys that made not weak his hold on heaven,

But touch'd his brow with sunbeams, and his heart

With warmer charity.

Year after year,

Home's duties and its hospitalities

Were blent with cheerfulness, and when the chill

Of hoary Time approach'd he took no part

In that repulsive criticism of age,

Pronouncing with a frown, the former days

Better than these.

The florid glow that tints

The cheek of health, which youth perchance, accounts

Its own peculiar beauty, dwelt with him

Till more than fourscore years and ten achiev'd

Their patriarch circle, while the pleasant smile

And genial manner, casting light around

His venerable age, conspired to make

His company desirable to all.

And so beloved on earth and waited for

Above, he closed this mortal pilgrimage

In perfect peace.